The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26
NEWS NOTES.

N. Y, have assigned; liabilities estimated
from $4,000 to 100000; assets about
$4,000
Miss Rebecca Hunter, a prominent lady
Of Newport, X. l., committed suicide the
other evening by jumping from the clifs In
the harbor.
Mrs. Joseph Cheshire died near Hayden.
vile, Hooking County, Ohio, few days
ago. aged 1l2 She was the oldest person
in that section OF the State.
Rev. W. E. Ward, OF Nashville, Tenn,
died of apoplexv on board the steamer An
rama, from Liverpool TO New York, few
days ago. The body will be taken to Ten
pessee.
A protest against the enforcement OF the
Crimes act has been issued by Earl Gran
vile, which bears the signatures OF thirty
eight Liberal Peers, including Lords
Spencer, Rosebery, Ripon and Kimberly.
Gertrude Beecrof, aged seventeen, OF
New York city, was rebuked by her mother
the other night for staying out late. She
took rat poison and died after much suf-
fering.
Oracle Storms, an eleven-year- old girl OF
Corunna, Ind, committed suicide by hang
ing herself to a rafter in the barn.
Polly Hayden, colored woman, Of New
Richmond, Ohio, died the other day at the
advanced age of one hundred and five years
and seven months She was born slave
at Richmond, Va, in l7S2, and in 1916 pur-
chased her freedom for 500. She was never
sick day in her life.
Sailors are very scarce all along the Pa
cifc coast. Hardly man can be obtained
at San Francisco, Portland, San Diego,
Eureka or San Pedro. A number of deep
ports for crews. and there is not much
prospect of their getting away soon.
A woman giving the name OF Anna Nor
ton, claiming to be from Battle Creek,
Mich, threw herself on the railroad track
in front Of a moving train at Newark, o.,
few days ago, but was frustrated IN her at
tempt to suicide by Mr.. Moser, who res
cued her. She was locked up in the city
prison. She claims to be the wife OF
prominent Odd Fellow and a e. A. Il. man.
1t is thought she is insane.
General William Mckee Dunn died at his
summer residence in Maplewood, Va, the
other day, of Brights disease. He was
seventy-two years old. He was Repre-
sentative from Indiana in the Thirty-sixth
and Thirty-seventh Congress. He was
vigorous supporter of the war and in 1861
was on General McClellan's staff. He was
afterward appointed Judge Advocate Gen
eral, which position he filled with marked
ability until dropped by President Hayes TO
make a place for General Swain.
Lieutenant James w. Graydon, the we'll
known dynamite bomb inventor is likely TO
get into trouble in his haste to procure a
divorce from his wife. In his complaint in
the suit begun by him few days ago at
indianapolis, sworn TO by him, he alleged
10 "a fn OF
the time that the complaint was filed. Affi-
davits are now being prepared IN San Fran
cisco stating that Mrs. Graydon has re-
ceived letters from her husband within the
past two weeks and that he must at that
time have known her address. The atfi-
davits will be forwarded to Indianapolis
with a request that the Lieutenant be ar
rested for perjury.
The will OF the late William Glenn, which
was probated at Cincinnati the other day,
makes public requests, mostly for religious
and educational organizations, amounting
to go, 900. The largest are 5000 each to
the Ohio Wesleyan University, Wesleyan
Female College Of Cincinnati, and St.
Paurs NJ. +. Church of Cincinnati, for local
missions.
Mgr. Persico, having practically COM
pleted his work Of inquiry into the condi-
ton of Ireland, will return 10 Rome about
the middle Of August. II is asserted that
the report Of his investigation, which he
has forwarded to the Pope, is drawn upon
| that which Cardinal Gibbons memorial to
the Holy Father was based, and it is sur
missed that the Pope, after reading it, will
! be thoroughly convinced of the fruitless-
! ness OF endeavoring TO prevent the Irish
| Catholic clergy from taking active part in
\ Rnla nOlitira and antl-pvlrfiOn de 4.
| onstrations.
Judge Johnson sentenced Ebenezer Stan
yard, the murderer Of Miss Alice Hancox,
| at Youngstown, ONO, to be hanged on No
| vember Is in the penitcntiary at Columbus.
After the sentence he asked, with q cynical
| smile: as that ALL"
| The American fishing schooner Annie W
| Hodgson, of Gloucester, has been seized
1 for sending two men ashore TO inquire
about some men who had been lost and not
| reporting at the custom house. She will
probably be let Off with fine.
The Baldwin preceptory, Of Bristol, gave
| banquet TO American Knights Templar II
| London, the other evening, upon which oc'
casion Sir Knight Charles Meyer, OF Phila
| delphia, presented to Colonel MacLivor the
honorary commandership Of the order.
A telegram received from United States
| Consul Carleton, at Souris, =. +. l., states
that the seines and boats with all the crew
Of the schooners Colonel J. II. France anC
Argonaut, were seized of East Point, z
T.. |. by the Dominion cutter Critic. IL ap
pears that the vessels boats were close in
shore when the cutter appeared, with thu
seines set in deep water
The latest feature OF the Hardin County
ILL.,, vendetta is an anonymous notice II
writing 10 County Judge Jacob Hess u
leave that county. Similar notices wert
served on Logan Bell and James ID. Bel
before they were assassinatcd. Hess is
brother-ln-law 10 Radcliffe, who was with